Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework

dc.contributor.authorCoulter, Natalie
dc.contributor.authorRamirez, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-16T17:25:24Z
dc.date.available2019-05-16T17:25:24Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.description.abstractWhile increasing media attention is given to examining the status of contract faculty on university campuses there is little note made of the pervasiveness of women in these positions. This paper, by drawing on Marxist and feminist theory ties the gender precarity faced by academic contract female workers to the historical practices of industries to use female labour to reduce labour costs. The textile piece worker system of the 19th century has found a 21st century form represented in the unlikely position of the female academic contract worker. The argument builds on the autoethnographic narratives of two contract women to demonstrate how the university administration’s “economic pressure” justification is an economic myth to occlude the exploitation of female workers.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNew Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 7.2 (2015)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36209
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNew Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiryen_US
dc.subjectLabour Exploitationen_US
dc.subjectGender and Class Oppressionen_US
dc.subjectCapitalismen_US
dc.titleLocked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Pieceworken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Locked In Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework.pdf
Size:
200.74 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: